stornello

From Italian stornello.

stornello (plural stornellos or stornelli)

1. (poetry) An Italian lyric poem or folk song.

• Rolleston

From storno (“a starling”) +‎ -ello (forming diminutives). Compare French étourneau.

• IPA^(key): /storˈnɛl.lo/
• Rhymes: -ɛllo
• Hyphenation: stor‧nèl‧lo

stornello m (plural stornelli)

1. (rare) diminutive of storno (“a starling”)
   • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto V”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 40-41; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     E come li stornei ne portan l'ali
     nel freddo tempo a schiera larga et piena,
     […]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (poetry) a type of lyric poem or folk song